Writing Paris mystery books with Cara Black
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Author Cara Black is back on the podcast!
She is a friend of the show, and has been appearing on it since 2019!
We chat about writing mysteries set in Paris (she has penned over 20 of them), we talk about her upcoming book (which you can pre-order below), and we talk about Paris, of course.
Helpful links for Cara:
- Cara Black's official site: https://carablack.com/
- Cara Black's Susbtack: https://carablack.substack.com/
- Preorder her book Huguette here: https://www.amazon.fr/Huguette-Cara-Black/dp/1641294493
Also mentioned in this episode:
- The Earful Everywhere podcast (currently in Italy): https://theearfultower.com/2025/05/15/lets-explore-italy-with-the-earful-everywhere/
- Our walking tours of Paris: http://www.theearfultower.com/tours
Music by Pres Maxson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, Oliver G here. This is the Earful Tower podcast and this week's episode features |
| 0:06.5 | a familiar face for long time listeners of this podcast. It's Cara Black, mystery, crime, murder, |
| 0:14.3 | writer. So she did the Amy LaDuke series and more. She's written over 20 books. She has a book |
| 0:20.6 | coming out December, which you can |
| 0:23.6 | pre-order. There's going to be links in the show notes. But this is a fun chat. We sort of, |
| 0:28.4 | we chat a little bit about the things we've done over the years. We talk a little bit about the |
| 0:33.2 | mind of a mystery writer and also styles of writing and how she does it. I tried to get her to |
| 0:40.6 | teach me how to write. I think you've got to like this episode. The episode is brought to you by |
| 0:46.0 | the Eval Tower listeners. So a huge thanks to all the Patreon and Substack members without you guys, |
| 0:52.4 | I would have stopped doing this an awfully long time ago. |
| 0:55.9 | Also, to all the people who've been jumping on our walking tours, |
| 0:59.5 | the season is really underway at the moment. |
| 1:01.9 | So theearfultower.com slash tours. |
| 1:04.9 | And I'll be back again at the end with the intention |
| 1:08.7 | of pointing you in the direction of the earful everywhere. |
| 1:13.1 | The new show I've been working on about Italy, specifically Rome and Venice. |
| 1:17.2 | But for now, we're going to jump into the mind of Cara Black, talking about murder, |
| 1:22.6 | talking about researching in this city, and talking about the city of Paris, of course. |
| 1:27.5 | Let's get into it with some music from Press Maxim. |
| 1:36.9 | Kara Black, how you doing? |
| 1:38.3 | I'm doing fine. |
| 1:39.4 | Bonsoir. |
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